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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 15h

She’s going to be fine we just want her to feel her best as soon as possible ok

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t even say it

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 16h

Power in the Blood, everybody let’s go

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 1d

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 1d

Last week I talked to @kenklippenstein.bsky.social, who is very good at this reporting thing, about the recent political assassinations and how the Trump White House is weaponizing them. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

The meme-ification of political violence

It's less ideology than the internet — what the media and Trump don't understand about the current wave of shootings.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 3d

Then-candidate RFK Jr wanted to make Aaron Siri, a powerful anti-vaccine lawyer, his attorney general. Now @by-cjewett.bsky.social writes, Siri is "at the forefront of furthering their shared interests, inside government circles and outside through the courts." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h...

Kennedy’s Ties to Ally Leading Vaccine Lawsuits Raise Ethical Concerns

www.nytimes.com

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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 6d

On The Podcast: Former CDC Director @drtomfrieden.bsky.social and MSNBC’s @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social on RFK Jr.’s vaccine skepticism and MAHA madness. Here Dr. Frieden & Brandy on how RFK Jr. has no interest in hearing from vaccine experts. Listen to the full ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 6d

and here we go: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/...

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d

@annamerlan.bsky.social is the best at this www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How TruthSocial’s bogus medical claims fool Trump fans

It's not just "medbeds."

www.motherjones.com

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent show today on Hegseth’s military meetup and all of the potential implications @maryharris.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

The Department of War…From Within

Podcast Episode · What Next | Daily News and Analysis · 10/01/2025 · 27m

podcasts.apple.com

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 7d

More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9d

RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.

Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.

www.msnbc.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9d

"The left" or just the community of "people who aren't brain-poisoned right wing fabulists" needs to figure out how to compete for the attention of young people and the broader public. Unless that happens there's a good chance we'll live in a world in which Bari Weiss is the exemplar of "the left."

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 9d

God I hate ConEd

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 10d

It’s terrible; somebody make me a CEO quick

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 10d

Miss you bud

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11d

Gotta say I prefer this to telling me I made my kid autistic

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11d

In short: the aughts' anti-vaxx band is back together, led by Kennedy, and now with the power of the federal government backing them. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.

Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.

www.msnbc.com

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11d

Blaxill joins a growing cast of anti-vaccine insiders placed into government roles by Kennedy, including David Geier, Lyn Redwood and Stuart Burns, a former congressional aide who is organizing the HHS Secretary's anti-vaccine crusade.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11d

Blaxill, CFO, failed congressional candidate, but neither a doctor nor a scientist, claims autism is caused by vaccines, and "exposures," not genes. He once led SafeMinds, a group that tried to prove vaccines cause autism and edited “Age of Autism,” an anti-vax blog.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.

Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.

www.msnbc.com

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11d

New: Ahead of an anticipated federal report that will "answer" autism, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has hired a new senior adviser to the CDC.

Meet Mark Blaxill, an OG anti-vaccine autism activist who claims every single vaccinated child is injured.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 13d

"There are autisms, rather than just autism. The diversity in symptoms, the severity of symptoms and the range of biological contributors are simply too large to be reduced to one uniform disorder. The neurobiology is too complex for easy explanations." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

www.nytimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14d

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